Dreams from My Father

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Zeitoun by Dave Eggers. A sad story about a guy named Zeitoun in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places by Paul Collier. Someone smart thinks about how to move failed states toward democracy in such a way that it sticks. Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama. A good memoir, but particularly interesting because he wrote it before he was famous. Cliff Walk by Don Snyder. An English professor gets fired and becomes a carpenter. Great if academia irritates you.

… wrote "very bad poetry" in college and his biographer David Mendell suggests that he once "harbored some thoughts of writing fiction as an avocation." For that matter, "Dreams From My Father" evinces an instinctive storytelling talent (which would later serve the author well on the campaign trail) and that odd combination of empathy and detachment gifted novelists possess. In that memoir, Obama seamlessly managed to convey points of view different from his own (a harbinger, perhaps, of his promises to bridge partisan divides and his ability to channel voters' hopes and dreams) while conjuring the many places he lived during his peripatetic childhood. He is at once the solitary outsider who learns to stop pressing his nose to the glass and the coolly omniscient observer providing us with a choral view of his past. http://www.iht.com/artic…

…ld develop and market an "Obama blend" (TOO LATE, but I still see a future in Obama-branded Kool-Aid) [1] Communists, Terrorists, and Racists. The triple crown! [2] See "Dreams from my Father" [3] http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YTQ0YjhlOGVhYjQ0OWRhZjI... The South Shore African Village Collaborative (SSAVC) was very much a part of the Afrocentric “rites of passage movement,” a fringe education crusade of the 1990s. SSAVC schools featured “African-Centered” curricula built around “rites of passage” ceremonies inspired by the puberty rites found in many African societies